Political Science

Education

• Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin, 1984
• BA, University of St. Thomas (MN), 1973
• Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Interests and Expertise

• State and local politics
• Urban development
• LGBT politics

Courses

No longer teaching

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Politics in Georgia, 3rd edition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+412 (with Robert M. Howard and Richard N. Engstrom).
• "Urbanization of the South." In Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics, 80–102. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
• "Competing Social Movements and Local Political Culture: Voting on Ballot Propositions to Ban Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S. States." Social Science Quarterly 90 (March 2009): 134–149 (with Laura Moyer).
• "What's a City to Do? Explaining Differences in Local Economic Development Policies." Western Political Quarterly 45 (September 1992): 677–699 (with Gary P. Green and Tsz Man Kwong) [most cited publication].